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STOLEN EVIDENCEHINT CAUSES STIRAT HYDE'S TRIAL
Prosecutor Starts InvestigationAfter Hearing of New
Developments
AfllSS KELLER FINISHES STORY
Efforts of Defense to Develop
Contradictions in Testi-mony Fruitless
[Assoclate4 Press]
KANSAS CITY. April -RigorousInvestigation of the disappear-ance of the state's documentary
evidence In tho Hyde murder case,
which fell into tho hands of the de-Ifenses counsel was ordered by Prose-
cutor Virgil Conkling today.
New developments In the case, themost Important of which was tho state-ment of Rubin B. Garrctt, the manwho lost tin, papers, that ho did notdrop them at the point where they aresaid to have been found, moved theprosecutor to renewed action.
"1 am far from satisfied these paporawere lost," snld Mr. Conkling tonight.'Neither do I want to say they werestolen. lint i have several men Inves-tigating the matter and sensationaldevelopments are likely to follow."
mlijh Pearl Keller, a nurse, was theonly witness fit the trial today. Shecompleted her direct testimony at theill of tho morning session. Attorney
Walsh, for Dr. Hyde, cross-examinedher iii the afternoon. Ha was unableto shake her testimony except on a.few minor details.
Miss Keller was allowed to tell of thetyphoid epidemic In the Bwopa resi-dence.
Tho court promised to order Itstricken out If litterdevelopments proveit Irrelevant. SSI
KTMI'TOMS WERE snill*\RThe most Important feature of her
testimony was that Miss MargaretSwope's symptoms on the morning Dr.Hyde is said to have poisoned her woresimilar to those of Col. BWOpa Just be-fore he died.
On cross examination , Mr. "Walshproved that shortly before the typhoidepidemic in the Swopo residence theplumbing which was supposed to carryaway tho waste was torn out. becauseit did not •work.
Dr. Hyde's attorneys today made an-other unsuccessful attempt to securethe letters and documents that pausedbetween John O. Paxton and the chem-tuts who made tho Swope analysis. Mr.Walsh said these papers would provelila contention that no poison wasfound in "the ejecta of Margaret Kwopo
or In the capsule \u25a0 which Dr. Hydethrew away when ho left the Swoperesidence December 31.
On December 11, said Miss Keller inthe course of her testimony, she wontto the Bwope house and took chargeof Miss Sarah Bwope. Th« Sundayfollowing, she testified, she heard thatDr. Hyde hud riven Miss MargaretSwope a hypodermic Injection. Dr.Hyde asserted, she said, that ho had
' given a harmless Injection of camphor-ated oil for Intermittent pulse.
"On the day following tho Riving ortlie Injection." testified the witness, "I
• m Margaret'! arm. It was badlyHwollen. The girl appeared to bo ingreat pain."
On December 18, shortly after Dr.Hyde had left the house, said thenurse, Margaret Swope passed Into aconvulsion. •
Miss Keller related how at the be-hest of Dr.' Twyman all of the medi-cine in tho house was destroyed im-mediately after Margaret Swope suf-fered a convulsion.
M KMW «K> ON STRIKEThis was the day the nurses struck
in the Bwope residence, and the start*made every effort to Inject the story
of the uprising of^the nurses againstnr. Hyde.
Amid a storm of objection from thodefendant's counsel the witness man-aged to tell that the i:urses held a pri-
vate meeting in Gal. Swope's room.For what purpose this meeting washeld she was not permitted to . say.
The state managed to show, how-ever, that Dr. Hyde and his wife leftthe house on December 18 and the wit-ness said there was no new sicknessafter he left. ,
Miss Kelley closed her testimony forthe state by telling briefly about MissLucy Lee Swope being attacked by
typhoid fever four days after her re-turn from New York in the companyof Dr. Hyde.
« When Attorney Walsh began thecross-examination of Miss Keller heImmediately delved Into the typhoid
fever feature of the case. -Mlsa Keller had previously testified
that Dr. Hyde brought a bottle of dis-tilled water to the Swope house fortho use of himself and his wife.
Cross-examination developed thatshe only heard they brought the waterto the house and she did not see it.
Reading from the. grand jury noteswhich recently fell into his hands, Mr.Walsh asked Miss Keller if she madethe statement that "Mr. Hunton hada violent twitching and jerking."
Tho witness testified she did not re-call her exact testimony but she didsay, substantially, that Mr. Hunton
' was Buffering from a convulsion.- - *\u25a0 .—\u25a0
COUPLE TO REMARRY AFTER17 YEARS OF SEPARATION
SAN DIEUO, April 21.—Mrs. AmandaHamilton, former wife of J. "W. Hamil-ton a well known tobacco dealer ofSan' Diego, has arrived here, from SouthHaven, Conn., after a separation last-ing seventeen yearn, and a marriage
license for the couple to rowed, haslioen Issued. . <\u25a0>.
The couple was accompanied to- theoffice of the county clerk by. their twochildren, one of whom is nearly of age.
The similarity of names aroused thecuriosity of the license clerk, and whenhe asked If the couple were In any-manner related the story of the mis-understandings of seventeen years ago
that resulted in a separation was read-ily told by the man. ,
INDEX OF
HERALD'S NEWSTODAY
FORKCAHTI'or la>h Angeles unil vicinity—Fair 1 rl-
ilaj! ronliniicil warm; light north wind,changing to south, Minimum temporal urnyesterday 87 degrees; minimum SO degrees.
LOS ANGELESJudge Ktephe.ns urged to be candidate
for re-election to bench. PAGE 13Out* thousand to go on auto club run
to Mallbu ranch. PAGE 1Orange growers protest to Assessor
Hopkins against propound Increase Invaluations, PAGB 7
Pioneers want names of Downey avenueand Buena Vista street restored. I'AUB 7
Open safety pin Is removed from bu-hy'i*stomach. PAOB 1
President of TV. C. T. V. Is candidateIn Herald's voting content. PAGE 13
Harbor commission to begin campaign to««ure lower freight rate* between ceti-t»r of Ij"m Ani?"l'-» and water front.
PAOB i«Dick Ferris ku«!< for 1100.000, alleging he
has hern slandered. PAGES 16Pasadena boostings committee urges build-
Ing of eleetrlo line tapping many small \u25a0
towns and giving better car «erv|ro,tothem. PAGE 14
Feud In lomii fire station ends withforces' resignation. PAUK 9
M'wrvn named by O. O. P. leajler mparty's candidate /or U. 6. senate.
PAOB 9Engineers eagor to begin work on the
harbor project. PA';l: 'N'cws of th" waterfront. PAGE 10Editorial, letter box. • PAOE 4Society, dubs and music. . 1*A« I'l i
Marrtagn licenses, births, itnath.i PAOJS 14City brevities. PAGE 5Some men, some women. PAGIS .»
In the hotel corridors. PACK 6News of the courts. PACK 7
Municipal afTalrs. PAGE 7Sports. PAGK 10Markets and financial. I'AOB 12Mines and oil 'fields. PAOB 13\u25a0 \u25a0lii-sllir.l advertising. PAGES 14-15
Citrus fruit report. PAOK 12Theaters. PA(ii: :
SOUTH CALIFORNIAPasadena y. M. C. A. arranges splendid
program for annual "gym." show. Youngtumblers will he stars. PAOB 1'".
Whirlwind finish marks closing days of"wet" and "dry" campaign In San Ber-nardino. PAC3I3 14
Long Beach will vote on location of highschool unless school trustees are unani-mous on site. \u25a0;•'\u25a0'. I'AGR 14
FlrebUßß Fttempt to "destroy cannery ofCalifornia Fish company at East PunPedro. PAGE 14
COASTJealousy cause* Oakland girl to betray
sweetheart. PAGE 2Agreement to distribute 1501,000 estate left
by late "Lord" Browne ends legal flght
at SantA Barbara. PAOB 1Oil In great tank at Point Richmond
catches (In*. Flames spread despite ef-forts of 600 firefighters. PAOB 1
EASTERNSix convicts escape from fe/lera! peniten-
tiary at Fort l*avenworth; i four arerecaptured »nd posses trail other two.
PA OR 1
Prosecution In Hyde murder case martsrigid Investigation of disappearance ofevidence. Finis It may have beenstolen. FAGFJ 1
Government pure food board rescinds or-der as to port and sherry labels ut re- .quest of California, wlnemakers. PAOB 1
Representative Fowler offers resolutionproviding new method of selecting mem-bers of house, committees and depriv-ing Cannon of more power. PAGPI 5
Samuel T» Clemens (Mark Twain) diesat Redding, Conn., of angina, pectoris.
PAUB 1Fear rich man Is victim of thugs. PAGB i
Rmigh Riders, military, civil and otherorganisations by the score seek placesIn parade to be held in New York In
i Roosevelt's honor. PAOR 2
WINE MAKERS WIN INFIGHT AGAINST LABELS
WASHINGTON, April 21.—Californiawino makers won a victory before thegovernment pure food board today Inth« matter of the labeling of port andsherry wines. The board had previous-
ly ruled th;it California port and sherrywines should lie labeled "Californiaport type" and "California sherry
type," and the wine makers of thatstate vigorously objected, declaring Itinjured its business.
Representatives Kahn, Hayes, Need-ham and Knowland of California aiulBert Schlessinger appeared before theboard and argued against the formerruling of the board.
Without leaving their Beats the board,which was presided over by Secretary
\u25a0Wilson, voted to reverse Its formerruling and not insist on the word"type" on the label.
ZEIGLER TO GET $100,000
FOR CARE OF MRS. M'VICKER
CHICAGO, April 21.—Dr. h, C. H.Zeljler, by a. supreme court decisionrendered today, Is entitled to $100,000from the estate of Mrs. J. 11. McVlcker,as provided by the contract he heldto render her medical attendance dur-ing her life.
Dr. Kelgler lived up to his part ofthe contract for five years, when Mrs.McVicker died. Her heirs attacked thecontract and won in tho lower courts,
but this decision was reversed by theIllinois supreme court at Springfieldtoday. Mrs. McVlcker died in Pasa-dena, Cal., August 24. 1904.
YOUTH WHO KILLED UNCLEWHILE DRINKING CONVICTEC
IKHILTON, Me.. April 21.—Just .sixhours to the minute after it had re-ceived the case, a jury in the supremecourt early this morning found CharlesR. Friel of Amity, guilty of the mur-der of his uncle, John Friel, of thesamn town.
The 19-year-old prisoner wept bit-terly when the verdict, which meanslife Imprisonment for him, was an-nounced. The. youth shot his unclewith a borrowed rifle, after a snifflethat terminated a drinking bout onthe night of November 1.
HAVOC WROUGHTAS FLAMES FROM
OIL TANK SPREADFive Hundred Fire Fighters Throw
Up Embankment, But ItFails as Barrier
LOSS WILL EXCEED $200,000
Traffic Over Santa Fe Tracks at
Richmond Is Blocked by
Great Blaze
[Associated Press]
OAKLAND, April 21.— a late hourtonight the fire In tho StandardOH company's petroleum reser-
voir at Point Richmond, which had Itsmysterious origin In tho early hours jof the morning, hud consumed almost .the entire contents of the huge tanksand had spread beyond the embank-ment reared by the 600 volunteer fire-fighters In the hope of checking it.
Flames leaped several hundred feetInto the air and the great shaft of OreIllumined the skies lor miles In everydirection. A dense volume of smokehung over the bay and was blowninto the foothills like a thick fog.
As tho fire left the Standard's In-
closure It traveled rapidly and de-scribed a ieml-clrclar path about halfa mile in width.
The fire has crossed the Santa Fetracks, crippling the traffic on thatline. The Southern Pacific tracks arestill open, though the blaze is In closeproximity. Both systems are using
the one track and the few trains onschedule at late hours are being moved.
Volunteers have been at work slncothe lire was discovered, the forces be-ng divided into shifts that remain at
the task as long as the intense heat
Will permit them.It Is estimated by the officials of the
company here that the damage willamount to $200,000. This is the mostdisastrous tire of its kind that hasever occurred In California. Fully350,000 barrels of oil in its crude statewere in the reservoir when tho firebroke out.
The tank was nu'.k in the ground,projecting only about five feet abovetho surface, but the progress of thenames was bo great that the fire fight-
ers could not gain headway.It \u25a0will be fullythree days before the.
fire exhausts the supply in the tank.Just how the vast quantity of oil
caught tire no one seems to know, andtho Standard officials have no theoriesto advance as yet. A night v itcliTinnIs maintained In the vicinity of thoreservoir who keeps a lookout for any
danger that might threaten the reser-voir or tank on the hills above SanPablo.
\u25a0It Is reported that the watchmanstated that the flames were high Inthe air In a moment and he discovered Ino one In the vicinity. It is statedthat such fires sometimes Ignite fromspontaneous combustion, which might ;
have been the case with this lire.
COMPROMISE ENDS SUITOVER $500,000 ESTATE
SANTA BAKLARA. April IL Acontrol of the half million dollar es-strugßle between mother and son fortate left by the late "Liord" Broome,was ended today by a compromise,through Which the widow, Mrs. Fran-
ces Broome, who has been admlnlrtrator of the estate, accepts a propositionfor an lmmedi&ta distribution.
Tho son, Thornhill Broome. soughtto have his mother deposed from theadministratorship, on the grounds thatshe had shown inefficiency when shelost, the palatial Broome residence, by
her refusal to submit to a $625 streettax. Mrs. Eroome's other two children,
a son and a daughter, stood by theirmother In the legal struggle. The estateconsists chiefly of extensive ranchholdings In Santa Barbara and Ven-tura counties.
GROVE L. JOHNSON HITSEDITOR INSLEY IN FACE
SACRAMENTO, April 21.—Grove I-.Johnson, dean of the California legis-lature and attorney for P. F. Heed,manager of Racrarnento-RoehdaW> com-pany, now seeking $50,000 for publica-tion of an alleged libelous article inthe Sacramento Union, mado a tisticattack c|n Edward Insley, managing
editor of the paper, today in JudgePost's court room, during a recess ofthe trial. For a time all attorneys
and principals in the easo were fight-ing a battle royal.
The trouble started when Insley re-fused to apologise to Johnson for re-marking in court last Tuesday thatthe venerable barrister's sickness,which delayed the trial, was probablyfaked, Johnson struck Insley in theface. A newspaper man placed hishands on the latter, who is past 72years old, when Reed attacked Insley.
Former Appellate Justice C, K. Mc-LaughUn and Attorney J, W. 8. But-ter for the Union, mixed into the light,
as well as clerks from law offices. Itwas .sometime before Deputy SheriffMcNamara restored order.
(Special to The Herald.)
FORTY-SEVEN MINERS DEAD
.BIRMINGHAM. Ala., April 21.—Abulletin -issued at midnight from thescene of the accident at Mulga placesthe known dead at Jive, with forty-twominers still -in the workings, all ofwVmin it i< r\rart\o.n\\v rfirtain are dead.
CREW RESCUEDNEWCASTI.K. -N. B. W.. April 31. Tha
crew or the British India Navigation com-pany's steamer ~Satara, which .went ashoroon the shoal , rocks yesterday, Wai rescuedby the steamer ' Arara anil landed here j to-day, .
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Samuel L. Clemens, One of His Residencesand an Extract from His Autobiography
6 FELONS BREAKPRISON; 4 CAUGHT
Two Convicts Still at Large andGuards and Citizens Follow
Trail
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., April 21.Two of the six convicts who escapedfrom the federal prison at Fort Leav-enworth today by seizing a switch en-gine and threatening the prison guardswith dummy revolvers made of wood,are being sought tonight by a poneof forty armed giiards and scores ofcitizens. Four of the convicts were re-captured.
The men who got away, TheodoreMurdock and Frank Grigware, are sup-posed to be in a wooded section knownas Hunn's valley, six miles west oftho fort. They are said to have onegun, taken from a sentry, but practi-cally no ammunition. Their captureIs looked for hourly.
In solitary confinement tonight arethe f<nir who failed to elude the searchwhich started when the prison sirenannounced there had been a jail deliv-ery. These are Thomas Katting, Ar-thur Hewitt, Robert Clark and JohnGideon. Clark and Gideon separatedfrom the others after the escape andwere, soon captured. Katting and Hew-itt wore caught this afternoon.
The escape of Murrtbek was not no-ticed until the calling of the prison rclldisclosed his absence. All but Mur-doch are serving life terms. Murdockwiis sent up from Chicago for counter-feiting.
When the men made their dash forliberty they covered Harry Reed, aguard, with dummy "puns" and fot-cedhim to enter the engine cab with them.But another guard named Burnett wasin the vicinity. He rushed up andstruck Katting over tho head, causinga wound from which blood2flowed free-ly. Katting was only stunned andrunning after bis confederates hescrambled into the engine just as itwas getting under way. Tho guard*lnilde the prison do not carry weap-
ons. Katting was employed for fiveyears as an engineer on the LakeShore and he assumed the leadershipwhen the engine started.
When the' engine had arrived at apoint six miles northwest from theprison the egineer and lireman werein.strui ted to "kill" the engine. Thenthe desperadoes forced the enginecrew to disrobe and two of the con-victs appropriated their garments .MINE OWNER'S CHARRED
BODY IS FOUND IN CABINC'ENTRAIj CITY. <"<ilo.. .April 21.--
The body of William H. ChlttMlden ofDenver, president and genera] managerof a mining- company, was foundburnod to a crisp today In the ruins ofa. frame cabin in RUMeli gulch, half amile from the Hampton mino. WhetherChlttenden was a \i«-tim of foul playcannot be told, .-is the body was con-sumed, rhittenden was to have tes-
tlHed today in the trial of a minercharged with stealing a drill.
REMOVE PIN FROM'TUMMY' OF BABY
Nevada Parents Rush Offspring
to Los Angeles Hospital.Operation a Success
Pin, pin, who has the pin"Little George Moore of Searchlight,
Nev., had the pin, but now it is an
honored relic at the Sisters' hospital,
and thereby hangs a tale.Little George Moore, the It-months-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mooreof Searchlight, Nev., felt like "eating
tacks." In the vernacular of his elders,
but failing to find those articles con-venient picked up the next best—anopen safety pin.
An open safety pin is! not recom-mended as a safe diet even by the mostdevoted devotee of breakfast foods, andwhen George's mother missed one of thepins from the clothing of her little sona frantic search was instituted, but thepin was safely tucked away in theanatomy of the young hopeful. Mr.Moore was hastily summoned, andagain th« house was searched from topto bottom, but no pin was to be found.
Baby George seemed delighted withthe funny little tickly feeling near hisspinal column, and crowed and laughedall day, thinking that some unknownfriend was playing with him.
Baby George finally became tired ofbeing tickled—anyway it didn't seem sofunny to be tickled from the interioras from the exterior, and so he madehis displeasure known.
The safety pin that had once servedin the clothing of the baby was yetmissing, . and no clew to its where-abouts had been found, so the fondfather and mother decided that babymust have swallowed it, and took thenext train for Los Angeles.
On arriving in Los Angeles yesterdaymorning the baby was rushed to theSisters' hospital, where an X-rayphotograph was taken, plainly reveal-Ing the lost safety pin lodged in thecartilidge near the vertebrae.
At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Dr.James F. Holleran operated on thebaby, performing an extremely delicateand critical surgical operation, and suc-ceeded in securing the safety pin, whichthe baby had swallowed open.
Late last evening the baby was rest-ing easily, and it is confidently ex-pected that he will recover, notwith-standing his penchant for pins and thehurried trip .made from Nevada. Mr.and Mrs. Moore are both at the hospi-tal and are anxiously watching theiryoung son. #
TWO REPORT THEFTS OFTHEIR AUTOMOBILES
Q. H. Narbonnc. 2428 Juliet street. reportedat police headquarters last night that hinautomobile, known ax "IHs Six," was stolenfrom In front of the Clara Barton hospltul.
Bdward Herwick. 123 East Fourth street, re-ported his Chalmers-Detroit automobile wasstolen from In front of Ills residence, butliit.-r notified p-'li™ headquarler» he had re-covered th« machlns
FEAR RICH MAN ISVICTIM OF THUGS
Former Real Estate Dealer Living
in Los Angeles in Winter,
Missing
[Associated Tress]
CHICAGO. April 21.—Norman P.CummlngS, 48 years old. a retired realestate dealer, who owns a million dol-
lars' worth "f property here, but re-
sides in Los Angeles, Is mysteriouslymissing.
He had just returned from a businesstrip to Detroit and when last seen had$37,000 in jewelry, $3r.f10 in currency andother valuables. Mis wife tonightmade frantic appeals to the police.voicing fear her husband had beenwaylaid, robbed and murdered.
Officers made the round of all thehospitals, but could find no trace ofCummings.
Since His retirement Cummings andhis wife have spent much lime intravel, making California winter head-quarters. Ho is a member of tho Chi-cago Athlotic association and retaineda residence hen', which he and his wifeused on brief visits to Chicago.
Police share the fear that someonesaw Cummings display a large amountof money and jewelry or knew he car-ried it and sought opportunity to strikehim down, the theory being that hewas thrown into a cab and hurried oftthe crowded streets
THREE TRY TO ROB BANK:ONE WOUNDED BY POSSE
MITCHELL, S. Dm April 21.—About2 o'clock this morning an unsuccess-ful attempt was made to rob the StateBank at Kay lor. a small town on theChicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail-road, by three yeggmen.
They wore tired upon by CashierGeorge Cartwrlght. One was hit, aswas shown by blood stains on tno out-
side of the building. The men stole ateam and started toward Scotland. Atthe same tlmo a sheriff's posse startedfor Scotland. The posse came uponthe men and opened fire. The (Ire wasreturned and the robbers* .started to
run. One fell, however, before he hadgone far. He. proved to be the manwhom the cashier had hit. The othertwo succeeded in escaping.
Bloodhounds have been put on thetrail. The captured bandit Is seriouslyInjured,
IDENTIFIED AS BANDITS
(>AKtiAND, April 21. -With the morepositive identification by EngineerQeorge Marab. of James Franklin andFred H;insen as the two bandits whoheld up and robbed the. China-Japanlust mail train near Benlcla, last. Sat-urday night, Captain of Detectives Pet-erson is confident that ho has the per-petrators of the crime In eiMtody.Marsh saw 111• - men again tonight andstated that in every way their featuresare similar, j
MARK TWAINDIESOUTWORN BY GRIEFAND ACUTE AGONY
End Comes Painlessly After Sev-eral Hours of Coma; All
Restoratives Fail
DAUGHTER AT HIS BEQSIDE
"Give Me My Glasses," LastWords of Noted Humorist;
End Comes at 6:30 p. m.
[Associated Press!
REDDING, Conn., April 21. SamuelLanghorn Clemens (Mark Twain)died painlessly at 6:30 tonight of
angina pectoris. Ho lapsed Into comaat 3 o'clock this afternoon and neverrecovered consciousness, It whs thoand of a man outworn by grief and
acute agony of body.Yesterday was a bad day for the lit-
tie knot of anxious watchers at tliobedside. For long hours the gray,
aquiline features lay molded in the In-ertia of death, while the puke sanksteadily, but at night ho passed fromstupor Into tho first natural Bleep liehad known sinco ho returned fromBermuda, .mil then he woke refreshed,
even faintly cheerful, and In full pos-
session of his faculties. He recognizedhis daughter Clara (Mrs. Ossip Ga-brilowitsch), spoke a rational word ortwo, and feeling himself unequal toconversation, wrote out in pencil:
"Give me my glasses."These were his last words. Laying
them aside, he sank, first into a rev-erie and later into final unconscious-ness.
Them was no thought at. the time,however, that the end was so near.At 6 o'clock Dr. Robert Halsey, whohad been continuously In attendance,i aid:
\u25a0Mr. Clemens is not so strong at thishour as he was at the corresponding:hour yesterday, but he has wonderfulvitalityand ho may rally again."
Albert Bigelow Paine. Mark Twain'sbiographer and literary executor. Baldto a caller who desired to inquire forMr. Clemens:
••I think you will not havo to calloften again."
RELATIVES FAIL TO SEE HIMNevertheless, Mr. and Mrs. E. B.
Loomls, who had come up from New-York to give their love in person, leftStormfleld, Mr. Clement's house, with-out seeing him and only heard of hisdeath as they were taking the trainto- New York again. Mrs. Loomis wanMr. Clemens 1 favorite niece and Mr.I.odinls is vice president of tho Lacka-wanna railroad.
Similarly, Jarvis Langdon, a nephew,who had run up for tho day, leftwholly uninformed.
At the deathbed 1 were only Mrs. Gab-rllowitsch. her husband. Dr. Robert.Halsey, Dr. Qulntard, Albert. RlgelowPaine, who will write Mark Twain'sbiography, and two trained nurses.
Restoratives— digitalis, strychine andcamphor—were administered, but the.patient failed to respond.
A tank of oxygen still stands, uncalledfor, at Redding station. Oxygen wastried yesterday and the physicians ox-plained it was of no value, because
the valvular action cf the heart wasso disordered. There was only an ex-
treme and increasing debility, accom-panied by labored respiration.
Angina pectoril is a paroxysmal af-fection of the chest, baffling and ob-scure of origin, characterised by severspain, faintness and deep depression ofspirit. The pain is severe and of a.crushing, or stabbing character. Th«attacks increase in frenquency andseverity with uncertain intermissions,some times of long duration, to a fataltermination.
SHOWED MUCH DEPRESSIONMark Twain did not die in anguish.
Sedatives soothed his pain, but in bismoments of consciousness the mentaldepression persisted. On the way up
from Bermuda, he said to Albert Bil-low Paine, who had been his constantcompanion in Illness:
"This is a bad job; we'll never pullthrough with it."
On shore once more, and longing forthe serenity of the New England hills,
he took heart and said to those « bonoted his enfeeblement:
"Give mo a breath of Redding aironce more and this will pass."
But it did not pass. and, tired ofbody and weary of spirit, the old war-rior against shams and snobs, said fin-ally to his nurse:
"Why do you fight to keep me alive?Two days of life tat as good to me asfour?"
It is to be recalled that Mark Twainwas for more than fifty years an In-veterate smoker and the first conjec-ture of the laymen would be that hohad weakened his heart by over Indul-gence In tobacco.
Dr. Halsey said tonight ho was un-able to predicate that the angina pec-toris from which Mark Twain diedwas in any way a sequel to nicotinepoisoning. Some constitutions, he said,seem Immune to the effect of tobacco.This was one of them.
Yet it is a fact that since his illnessbegan the doctors had cut down Mr.Clemens' daily allowance of twenty ci-gars, and countless pipes, to four cigars
a day.smoked IV rAMToacm
No privation was a greater sorrow tohim. He tried to smoke on the steam-er while returning from Bermuda andonly gave it up because he was toofeeble to draw on his pipo. On hisdeath bed, when ho had passed the.point of speech and it was no longercertain his Ideas were lucid, he wouldmake the motion of waving a cigar
and smilingly expel the air from un-der the mustache, still stained withsmoke.
Where Mark Twain ohose to spend,his declining years was the first out-post of Methodism in New England andit was among the hills of Redding thatGeneral Putnam, of • revolutionaryl
fame, mustered his sparse ranks. Put-nam park now encloses the memoryof his camp.
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